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Showing Original Post only (View all)OK, Old Timers, I gotta say this: [View all]
As an adult in my late 20s, I lived through Watergate. Never liked Nixon, but was still shocked at what went on and glad that he was caught, embarrassed and forced to resign.
However, what is going on now with Trump, IMO, it makes Watergate look like a misdemeanor theft of bubble gum from a 7-11 by a 10-year-old.
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you liked that bubblegum? It was always hard and broke into pieces too big to chew.
librechik
Sep 2019
#8
Nixon's Press Secretary, Ron Ziegler, described the break-in as "a third-rate burglary attempt"...
George II
Sep 2019
#19
Different times, different laws. This whole thing is way more important than some semen stain
ancianita
Sep 2019
#25
The Koch's, The Family, 1%, etc. had a plan ready to implement from the get go.
Ligyron
Sep 2019
#36
+1. Nixon would have survived were it not for cover up and that so many were tired of VN war.
Hoyt
Sep 2019
#32
I am wondering if both of them and the rest of the Trump cabal will defect to Russia.
TruckFump
Sep 2019
#47
Well Watergate is what Nixon got caught on. There was that crap where he interfered with the
yellowcanine
Sep 2019
#51
However, if you only watched they live fox House hearing, with chyrons, and were not real
empedocles
Sep 2019
#56